Bash 3 breaks array expansion

[Roy Marples]

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -$uname
output: Linux uberlaptop 2.6.7 #2 Sun Jul 18 12:00:59 BST 2004 i686
Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.60GHz GenuineInte$Machine Type:
i686-pc-linux-gnu

Bash Version: 3.0
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release

Description:
        Bash 3 breaks array expansion

Repeat-By:
        #!/bin/bash
        x=(one two)
        echo ${x[@]:1}
        # prints nothing in bash 3
        # prints two in bash 2

        x=(one two three)
        echo ${x[@]:1}
        # prints two three as expected in bash 2

Fix:
        (really a work around)
        #!/bin/bash
        x=(one two)
        x=("${x[@]}" "xxx")
        echo ${x[@]:1:${#x[@]} - 2}